Muttsnuts - MX3 V6 Project

Finaly picked her up on Friday, It was obvious that the last owner did not look after her at all but for 770 quid you cant moan. Chassis and engine were in a realy good condition, nice set of fox alloys on her though.

Cosmeticly she is fading and the rear spoiler was almost white.

Quite a few electrical faults but easy to fix by cleaning contacts, replacing fuses. No ICE fitted so Pioneer systen installed yesterday and holder for the ipod.

if your paint is fading to pink on your red cars, use G3 polishing/cutting paste with a polisher, the G3 is like a tougher t-cut and will bring back the best shine your cars will have seen since they left the showroom.

when using the G3 add a lot of water to it to stop it burning the paint. it'll look awsome and any body would think you've had a re-spray!

Was thinking of getting her lowered but got a few more niggly little faults to sort out first.

Since the last post on here had a locksmith come out and remove half a key the last owner managed to snap and glued into the ignition barrel (I had been starting her with the left over stub of the key). Mazda garage wanted £250 for this but the local auto locksmith did it for 100 quid including a new set of keys.

I have a groaning sound comming from left hand side whenever I turn the wheel, this happens if the car is static and moving. After lots of wheel turning and listening the noise is comming fron the suspention strut, it seems to be turning and grinding somewhere above the spring. So todays job is to take the strut off and see what I can do with it.

Taking the suspention strut off was straight foward enouth, It looks like the source of the noise is the thrust bearing at the top of the strut so its shopping time to get that and a set of spring compressors to allow me to change it.

Putting the strut back on was a bit of a drama as the drive shaft popped out, however a bit of wiggling, swearing and sweating later it all came back into place.

Last night was removing various bits of the engine bay and spraying them up red, was dark when i finished and reinstalled them so photos to follow.

Ive got a plan for the cold air induction kit. Going to get some Metal flexi tubing and install it between the Air filter I have fitted now and an air scoop at the lowest point on the engine bay to be made from aluminum plate. I can only find 120mm flexy metal tubing in silver at the moment, what I really want is red. Also I will have to move the coolant header tank, so looking at how im going to do that.